The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10

Mrs. Edward Harrigan is charming
woman, who takes infinite interest and gets
horribly" interested i'll the work of her hus-
band. We say "horribly,n for on first nights
at Harrigan Theatre she works herself up
III to such a condition of nervousness that
she becomes positively ill. This was her
condition of mind on the first night of Pete,
rec; nifty produced, and she watched for the
great scenic effect that closes the third act
IN such state of mind thatshe had to keep
her nerves down by constantly pacing up
and down the Office floor. This was while
her husband was quietly going through his
part IN satisfactory manner and without
any apparent trouble on his mind Mrs
Harrigan assists her husband quite import
antly III his dramatic work; that is to say,
she does the writing while he dictates, and
very often acts as his critic. making sugges-
lions as he goes on that tell him when he is
going on the wrong track.
1t is an excellent method to have such a
critic, and the experience Mrs. Harrigan has
enjoyed in this sort OF work makes her quite
able for the task. In appearance she is a
slight brunette, piquant and pretty as to
face, bright in conversation and intensely
active. She and Mr.. Harrigan have led a
model life and hard working one, for the
demands of his business even call husband
away from the expensive summer home
Lake. in the Adirondacks. Indeed, this
country home, upon which s., 500 had been
expended, remained vacant through Mr.
Harrigans visit to California on a profess
sional mission
Mrs. Mart Hanley is another of the pre-
siding female geniuses of this establishment
Her life has been anything but a pleasant
one of late, for it is only recently that she
came within miracle of losing her popular
husband, who manages the business end of
the theatre. Indeed, so near was Mr.. Han
ley to death that when the priest came to
perform the last sacrament of the Catholic
Church he at first refused to anoint on the
ground that Mr. Hanley was dead, and at
the time only one doctor out of the three
present held out the idea that he was still
living. 1t may we'll be imagined that such
circumstances have contributed no little
suffering on Mrs Hanley's part, though the
joy of her husbands recovery must have re-
compensed for il all
Mr.. Aronson, of the Casino, is still a
young bachelor. Mr.. Il. Henry French,
of the Grand Opera House, is now long
time widower as is Mr.. Josh Hart of the
Theatre Comique Mr.. Wallack and Mr.
Moss of Wallack's Theatre, are long time
married, and the handsome family of Mrs.
Moss are generally to be seen on first
nights at the various theatres Gen. Bar
ton, OF the BlJou, has no wife; Mrs. Dlxey,
of the same theatre, has recently figured
in the Harlem fracas in which Mr.. Hilliard
made such a hasty retreat, and Col. Miles
keeps his wife in retirement at Cincinnati,
where he owns too splendid a home to
make residence in New York at all de-
sirable. Mrs. Rosenquest, who is almost
still in her honeymoon, is the handsome
blonde wife of Manager J. w. Rosenquest,
of the Fourteenth Street Theatre. She Is
also great value to her husband in purely
a business sense, and has the casting vote on
all matters of policy in connection with the
theatre. One is seldom seen without the
other